Gaza: the Israeli army asks the population to evacuate the area of ​​Al Shifa Hospital

The army of Israel On Monday, he asked the civilian population to “immediately” evacuate the area of ​​Al Shifa hospital in Gaza city, where fighting has been going on since dawn, a spokesman said.

“For your safety, you should immediately evacuate the area to the west” and take the coastal road “to the south.”to the humanitarian zone of Al Mawasi”, in the south of Gaza stripindicated the spokesperson in Arabic in a message on the X network.

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Several witnesses told AFP that leaflets with this message were dropped in the area.

The fighting began shortly before dawn, around hospital. In a statement published at around 07:00 GMT, the army indicated that it was carrying out “an anti-terrorist operation in the hospital area”. Al-Shifa”.

“In the last few hours, soldiers have identified terrorists shooting at them from several hospital buildings.. “Soldiers responded to the terrorists and caught up with several of them,” the army said.

According to residents of the Al Rimal neighborhood, where hospitalmore than 45 Israeli tanks and armored vehicles entered the area.

Since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7, the Israeli army has carried out operations in several hospitals in the Palestinian territory, accusing the Palestinian Islamic movement of using health facilities as command centers.

Source: Elcomercio

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